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School strike for climate

January 2022

School students walked out of classrooms to demand action on climate change.

The stories behind the research grants Stuart Robert vetoed

Judge for yourself: are these research projects in the national interest?

March 2020

 Greta Thunberg speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of the Environment Council at the European Council building in Brussels earlier this month.

Greta Thunberg against the world

How a 17-year-old girl with Asperger’s Syndrome, plaits and a homemade protest sign got under the skin of the US president.

November 2019

The declaration puts pressure on the European Commission under its new president-elect Ursula von der Leyen.

European Parliament declares climate emergency

The symbolic declaration puts pressure on European member states to address the growing climate crisis.

Plan to put out the dinner table spot-fires sparked by debating climate change and the fires in five-easy steps.

A here's how guide to surviving the bushfire debate

In case a dinner-table debate proves unavoidable, carefully plan how to safely discuss climate change with the kids.

September 2019

Greta Thunberg: "If you choose to fail us, we will never forgive you."

Cyclone Greta shakes up the climate change debate

Thunberg and other young climate strikers want to bridge the generational climate change chasm. But is it working?

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Universities are not always their dreamy ideal.

Watering Australia's intellectual deserts

Our universities have given up on diversity of thought. No eco-system does well when that happens.

Are we there yet?

Greta gets it wrong

What a teen from wealthy Sweden denounces as “fairy tales of eternal economic growth” is the ladder out of poverty for millions.

Strike organiser Daisy Jeffrey, the daughter of Anthony Albanese's speechwriter.

Keeping the government honest: a Jeffrey family tradition

When a family member of the opposition leaders' speechwriter organises some of the biggest protests against government policy in Australian history, does it bear disclosure?

'How dare you': Teen scolds world leaders

The 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg scolded heads of state at a United Nations summit on Monday, saying they're robbing her generation of a future by focusing on money and not on fighting global warming.

Redbubble chief executive Barry Newstead is making the ecommerce marketplace carbon neutral.

Tech leaders taking action on climate change beyond the strike

Redbubble is going carbon neutral, Adore Beauty is reducing its cardboard usage by 27 tonnes this year and 99design's Patrick Llewellyn lives sustainably.

"It’s pretty simple, we are responding to the science," says Atlassian chief executive officer Mike Cannon-Brookes.

We have to do our bit or we're cooked: Cannon-Brookes

With the Australian government missing in action on climate change policy, business is stepping up.

Tree-huggers should wrap their arms around renewable energy sources instead.

Planting trees is good, but embracing renewables is better

Renewable energy beats tree-planting when it comes to climate-friendly use of land.

The climate strike.

Climate strike turnout doubles as adult workers join the fray

Sympathetic adults joined the student-led climate strikes on Friday, doubling the amount who turned up for similar protests back in March to 300,000.

Newington College Max Tobin, 16, with Tom Graham, 17, are striking today to bring attention to the issue of climate change.

'We've listened to the science, we are not brainwashed kids': school strikers

Student climate change protesters say they're not naive and have added a fresh demand to prove it.

Audrey Khaing-Jones and husband Dean Jones founded dress rental company GlamCorner seven years ago.

The businesses sending staff to the climate strike frontline

Employers are backing a campaign to send staff to Friday's climate rallies as the debate over the role of corporate citizens in society continues.

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Wharfies to strike to attend climate action rallies

Hundreds of wharfies will be stopping work to take part in national climate change rallies by using protections for industrial action designed for enterprise bargaining.

Mike Cannon-Brookes gave staff the day to join the school strike later this month.

Banks leave staff open to join Atlassian at climate rally

Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes called on business to do more on climate but banks say staff should use their leave to attend climate change protests.

Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes says Australians can't rely on the government "at all" on climate.

Atlassian backs kids' climate strike

Tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes says Atlassian supports staff attending upcoming protests demanding action on climate change.

August 2019

Greta Thunberg is bound for New York in a high-tech but low-comfort sailboat.

Thunberg's voyage against hypocrisy

The Swedish teen is a political creation. But she has shown up the double standards of her celebrity activist elders.

March 2019

Approximately 20,000 students attended the climate march.

Thousands of students rally against climate change

School students across the country skipped classes on Friday and converged on the centre of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane for a lesson in climate change activism.

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